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February 7th, 2019 05:00

iDRAC Credentials randomly failing

SupportAssist Enterprise Version: 2.0.10.13

Randomly, our iDRAC credentials will stop working. I need to re-assign the credential profile and then everything works until it randomly stops after a few days.

Only thing of interest in my configuration is that I am not using a "root" account for connecting to iDRAC and rather a custom account I setup on all of the iDRACs. 

Anyone else seeing this problem?

  • Dell-DylanJ

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    Posted April 17th, 2019 08:00

    This is the first I'm hearing of this issue. What iDRAC firmware are you working with? Do you know what servers are being affected? I'd like to start narrowing the scope so that we may be able to identify a path forward.

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    Posted April 17th, 2019 10:00

    Dylan,

    Ironically, this happened again last night.

    These are Dell R740xd servers. Running iDRAC 9 3.21.21.21 (Build 30).

    We have five R740xd2 servers that do no seem to be experiencing this issue.

    Thanks!

  • Dell-DylanJ

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    Posted April 17th, 2019 12:00

    I have a test environment set up and it should match yours. In the meantime, you might test the following:

    1) See if the issue pops up in multiple web browsers

    2) Clearing cookies and temp internet files

    3) Reinstalling SAE

    If the issue does occur on my side, I'll make sure to share that with you, since we would likely need to engage the dev team.

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    Posted April 17th, 2019 12:00

    SupportAssist server is Windows 2016.

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    Posted April 17th, 2019 12:00

    That's pretty wild. I'm going to get an environment deployed to test it out. For the closest replication, would you mind sharing what OS you've got running on the hosts with SupportAssist Enterprise?

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    Posted April 19th, 2019 08:00

    Still poking at this trying to replicate. I'm working with the latest iDRAC firmware right now, because the response would just be "Update the iDRAC" if we didn't. If the behavior doesn't replicate, I'll down rev it and test at the same iDRAC version as you. So far, 3.30.30 has not lost credentials in SAE.

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    Posted April 22nd, 2019 14:00

    I've not been able to replicate this behavior with iDRAC 3.30.30.30. I'll down-flash it and test on 3.21.21.21, and follow up if the credential loss happens to me. Otherwise, I'd expect one of the previous steps to help.

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    Posted August 15th, 2019 08:00

    We have also seen this happen on two of our hyperconverged (xd) servers.